Information Quagmire
December 05, 2003
After an intense battle between Americans and insurgents in the Iraqi town of Samarra last weekend, local hospital officials said they could only account for eight deaths, including several civilians. But military officials are sticking to their guns with their insistence that 54 guerillas and no civilians were killed. Brooke talks to University of Michigan history professor Juan Cole about the difficulty of finding reliable sources of information, no matter how close to the conflict it you might be.
